She will be important when the Senate comes out with their budget this year. Ryan is hoping the Senate Republicans will have enough leverage in the Senate through a filibuster that will bring about his dream come true to end the Affordable Care Act.
Senator Murray has a real opportunity to bring about sincere budget demands through her understanding of health care. She can protect the Earned Benefits such as SSI and Medicare. She has the opportunity to move it from "The Sequester" demands on Medicare to the benefits column for the elderly and disabled.
What is going to happen here is Ryan will demand extremists dominate the House Budget to benefit their political clout in upcoming Republican primaries. The Senate, with Senator Murray's help will protect the American people. She should also seek to counter the Ryan extremism. After the Senate budget makes it past a filibuster, if it makes it past the filibuster with all the problems Senate Republicans will bring to that Senate Budget. That is the reason the Senate has been unable to settle on a budget by the way. The draconian nature of the Senate Republicans always keeps it from becoming a budget.
But, ultimately when the Senate passes their budget with a sixty vote margin it will have to go into Reconciliation with the House and then only require a 51% vote in the Senate before it goes to the President. It is that 51% the Senate Democrats should not be afraid of and seek to make the bill palatable for the Reconciliation Process.
